How to Use the iPhone Speakerphone

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This wikiHow teaches you how to use your iPhone's speaker function to amplify your phone's volume during a phone call. You can turn on your iPhone's speaker during a call, or you can change your iPhone's settings to turn on the speaker whenever you initiate or receive a call. Unfortunately, you cannot use the speaker to amplify the volume for a video or voice message.

Tap Speaker. It's in the upper-right corner of the grid of call buttons. Doing so will turn on your iPhone's speaker, allowing you to hold the phone away from your face while still being able to talk and listen.

If your iPhone's dial pad is still on-screen, tap Hide in the bottom-right corner of the dial pad to hide it and show the call buttons.

If you're connected to a Bluetooth speaker (e.g., the speaker in your car), tapping the speaker icon will prompt a pop-up menu at the bottom of the screen, at which point you'll have to tap Speaker to switch to your iPhone's speaker.

When you first answer a cell phone call, you will see multiple circular buttons you can press on the screen. One of them, usually on the top right, should read, "speaker," and have an icon of a megaphone with three lines coming out. Press that button and it will automatically put your call on speaker.

Tips

If your iPhone uses Visual Voicemail, you can use your speaker to listen to voicemail from within the Phone app. To do so, tap the Voicemail tab in the bottom-right corner of the Phone app's screen, select a voicemail, tap Speaker, and tap the Play button.

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